%0 Journal Article
%T The Large Area Telescope on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Mission
%+ Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112))
%+ Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU)
%+ Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR)
%+ Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Astroparticules (LPTA)
%+ Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG)
%+ Centre d'étude spatiale des rayonnements (CESR)
%A B. Atwood, W.
%A A. Abdo, A.
%A Ackermann, Markus
%A Anderson, B.
%A Axelsson, Magnus
%A Baldini, Luca
%A Ballet, Jean
%A Band, D. L.
%A Barbiellini, Guido
%A Bartelt, J.
%A Bastieri, D.
%A M.Baughman, B.
%A Bechtol, K.
%A Bédérède, D.
%A Bellardi, F.
%A Bellazzini, R.
%A Berenji, B.
%A F.Bignami, G.
%A Bisello, D.
%A Bissaldi, E.
%A D.Blandford, R.
%A D.Bloom, E.
%A R.Bogart, J.
%A Bonamente, E.
%A Bonnell, J.
%A W.Borgland, A.
%A Bouvier, A.
%A Bregeon, J.
%A Brez, A.
%A Brigida, M.
%A Bruel, Pascal
%A H.Burnett, T.
%A Busetto, G.
%A A.Caliandro, G.
%A Cameron, R.A.
%A Caraveo, P. A.
%A Carius, S.
%A Carlson, P.
%A M.Casandjian, J.
%A Cavazzuti, E.
%A Ceccanti, M.
%A Cecchi, C.
%A Charles, E.
%A Chekhtman, A.
%A C.Cheung, C.
%A Chiang, J.
%A Chipaux, R.
%A N. Cillis, A.
%A Ciprini, S.
%A Claus, R.
%A Cohen-Tanugi, J.
%A Condamoor, S.
%A Conrad, J.
%A Corbet, R.
%A Corucci, L.
%A Costamante, L.
%A Cutini, S.
%A Davis, D.S.
%A Decotigny, D.
%A Deklotz, M.
%A Dermer, C.D.
%A de Angelis, A.
%A Digel, S.W.
%A Do Couto E Silva, E.
%A Drell, P.S.
%A Dubois, R.
%A Dumora, D.
%A Edmonds, Y.
%A Fabiani, D.
%A Farnier, C.
%A Favuzzi, C.
%A Flath, D.L.
%A Fleury, P.
%A Focke, W.B.
%A Funk, S.
%A Fusco, P.
%A Gargano, F.
%A Gasparrini, D.
%A Gehrels, N.
%A Gentit, F.-X.
%A Germani, S.
%A Giebels, B.
%A Giglietto, N.
%A Giommi, P.
%A Giordano, F.
%A Glanzman, T.
%A Godfrey, G.
%A Grenier, I.A.
%A Grondin, M.-H.
%A Grove, J.E.
%A Guillemot, L.
%A Guiriec, S.
%A Haller, G.
%A Harding, A.K.
%A Hart, P.A.
%A Hays, E.
%A Healey, S.E.
%A Hirayama, M.
%A Hjalmarsdotter, L.
%A Horn, R.
%A Johannesson, G.
%A Johansson, G.
%A S.Johnson, A.
%A P.Johnson, R.
%A J.Johnson, T.
%A N.Johnson, W.
%A Kamae, T.
%A Katagiri, H.
%A Kataoka, J.
%A Kavelaars, A.
%A Kawai, N.
%A Kelly, H.
%A Kerr, M.
%A Klamra, W.
%A Knödlseder, Jürgen
%A Kocian, M. L.
%A Komin, N.
%A Kuehn, F.
%A Kuss, M.
%A Landriu, D.
%A Latronico, L.
%A Lee, B.
%A Lee, S.-H.
%A Lemoine-Goumard, M.
%A Lionetto, A.M.
%A Longo, F.
%A Loparco, F.
%A Lott, B.
%A Lovellette, M.N.
%A Lubrano, P.
%A Madjeski, G.M.
%A Makeev, A.
%A Marangelli, B.
%A Massai, M.M.
%A Mazziotta, M.N.
%A Mcenery, J.E.
%A Menon, N.
%A Meurer, C.
%A Michelson, P.F.
%A Minuti, M.
%A Mirizzi, N.
%A Mitthumsiri, W.
%A Mizuno, T.
%A Moiseev, A.A.
%A Monte, C.
%A Monzani, M.E.
%A Moretti, E.
%A Morselli, A.
%A Moskalenko, I.V.
%A Murgia, S.
%A Nakamori, T.
%A Nishino, S.
%A Nolan, P.L.
%A Norris, J.P.
%A Nuss, E.
%A Ohno, M.
%A Ohsugi, T.
%A Omodei, N.
%A Orlando, E.
%A Ormes, J.F.
%A Paccagnella, A.
%A Paneque, D.
%A Panetta, J.H.
%A Parent, D.
%A Pearce, M.
%A Pepe, M.
%A Perazzo, A.
%A Pesce-Rollins, M.
%A Picozza, P.
%A Pieri, L.
%A Pinchera, M.
%A Piron, F.
%A Porter, T.A.
%A Poupard, L.
%A Raino, S.
%A Rando, R.
%A Rapposelli, E.
%A Razzano, M.
%A Reimer, A.
%A Reimer, O.
%A Reposeur, T.
%A Reyes, L. C.
%A Ritz, S.
%A Rochester, L.S.
%A Rodriguez, A.Y.
%A Romani, R.W.
%A Roth, M.
%A Russell, J.J.
%A Ryde, F.
%A Sabatini, S.
%A Sadrosinski, H.F-W.
%A Sanchez, D.
%A Sander, A.
%A Sapozhinkov, L.
%A Saz Parkinson, P.M.
%A Scargle, J.D.
%A Schalk, T.L.
%A Scolieri, G.
%A Sgro, G.
%A Share, G.H.
%A Shaw, M.
%A Shimokawabe, T.
%A Shrader, C.
%A Sierpowska-Bartosik, A.
%A Siskind, E.J.
%A Smith, D.A.
%A Smith, P.D.
%A Spandre, G.
%A Spinelli, P.
%A Starck, Jean-Luc
%A Stephens, T. E.
%A Strickman, M.S.
%A Strong, A.W.
%A Suson, D.J.
%A Tajima, H.
%A Takahashi, H.
%A Takahashi, T.
%A Tanaka, T.
%A Tenze, A.
%A Tether, S.
%A Thayer, J.B.
%A Thayer, J.G.
%A Thompson, D.J.
%A Tibaldo, L.
%A Tibolla, O.
%A Torres, D.F.
%A Tosti, G.
%A Tramacere, A.
%A Turri, M.
%A Usher, T.L.
%A Vilchez, N.
%A Vitale, V.
%A Wang, P.
%A Watters, K.
%A Winer, B. L.
%A Wood, K.S.
%A Ylinen, T.
%A Ziegler, M.
%Z 40 pages, 7 tables, 33 figures, emulateapj.cls; submitted to The Astrophysical Journal
%< avec comité de lecture
%@ 0004-637X
%J The Astrophysical Journal
%I American Astronomical Society
%V 697
%P 1071-1102
%8 2009-06-01
%D 2009
%Z 0902.1089
%R 10.1088/0004-637X/697/2/1071
%Z Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM]
%Z Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE]Journal articles
%X (Abridged) The Large Area Telescope (Fermi/LAT, hereafter LAT), the primary instrument on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) mission, is an imaging, wide field-of-view, high-energy gamma-ray telescope, covering the energy range from below 20 MeV to more than 300 GeV. This paper describes the LAT, its pre-flight expected performance, and summarizes the key science objectives that will be addressed. On-orbit performance will be presented in detail in a subsequent paper. The LAT is a pair-conversion telescope with a precision tracker and calorimeter, each consisting of a 4x4 array of 16 modules, a segmented anticoincidence detector that covers the tracker array, and a programmable trigger and data acquisition system. Each tracker module has a vertical stack of 18 x,y tracking planes, including two layers (x and y) of single-sided silicon strip detectors and high-Z converter material (tungsten) per tray. Every calorimeter module has 96 CsI(Tl) crystals, arranged in an 8 layer hodoscopic configuration with a total depth of 8.6 radiation lengths. The aspect ratio of the tracker (height/width) is 0.4 allowing a large field-of-view (2.4 sr). Data obtained with the LAT are intended to (i) permit rapid notification of high-energy gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and transients and facilitate monitoring of variable sources, (ii) yield an extensive catalog of several thousand high-energy sources obtained from an all-sky survey, (iii) measure spectra from 20 MeV to more than 50 GeV for several hundred sources, (iv) localize point sources to 0.3 - 2 arc minutes, (v) map and obtain spectra of extended sources such as SNRs, molecular clouds, and nearby galaxies, (vi) measure the diffuse isotropic gamma-ray background up to TeV energies, and (vii) explore the discovery space for dark matter.
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%Z Fermi-LAT
%L in2p3-00378934
%U https://hal.in2p3.fr/in2p3-00378934
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